1. 1791: The United States Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, was ratified.
2. 1890: Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull was killed by Indian police at the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota during an attempt to arrest him.
3. 1939: The film "Gone with the Wind," based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
4. 1944: The Battle of the Bulge began during World War II as German forces launched a surprise counteroffensive against Allied forces in Belgium.
5. 1961: Adolf Eichmann, a key architect of the Holocaust, was found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
6. 1973: The American Psychiatric Association voted to remove homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders in the DSM-II (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).
7. 1978: President Jimmy Carter announced the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China, following years of estrangement.
8. 2001: The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened to the public after 11 years of stabilization work to reverse its tilt.
9. 2013: China successfully launched its first lunar rover, Chang'e-3, to explore the Moon.
10. 2015: The Paris Agreement, a global accord to combat climate change, was adopted by representatives of 196 countries at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris.
These are just a few examples, and many more events have occurred on December 15 throughout history.
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